Cooking Column by Sybil Pratt

Here's an aspect of La Cucina Italiana that may be new to you Italians are wild about grilling and have been for centuries. If Italian flavors light your fire, add Savory Sausage and Sweet Grape Skewers, marvelous, make-ahead grilled then marinated Monkfish, Grilled Polenta rounds topped with creamy Gorgonzola or any of the other 82 recipes included in Micol Negrin's The Italian Grill to your...

Cooking Column by Sybil Pratt

For the past four years Fran McCullough has culled thousands of recipes from books, magazines, newspapers and the Internet to come up with an annual compilation of the best. This year's winners are in The Best American Recipes 2002-2003(Houghton Mifflin, $26, 352 pages, ISBN 0618191372), edited by McCullough and Molly Stevens, with a fabulous foreword by the inimitable Anthony Bourdain and...